Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.